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Steve McQueen: Bass

edited by Donna De Salvo and Isabel Friedli, with Elsa Himmer and Emily Markert; designed by Irma Boom
Added February 2025
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Edition:
First edition
Publication:
New York, NY : Dia Art Foundation ; Münchenstein : Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager ; 2024
Distribution:
New York, NY : Distributed in the Americas and Asia by Artbook/D.A.P. ; London : Distributed in Great Britain and Ireland by Art Data ; Cologne : Distributed in Germany and Europe by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther ; Münchenstein : Distributed in Switzerland by Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager
Copyright:
©2024

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Summary:
The subject of this volume is the traveling immersive installation conceived by British film director and video artist Steve McQueen (born 1969). Under his direction, the 30,000-square-foot ground-level gallery at Dia Beacon is transformed into an installation comprising 60 lightboxes, in concert with a sonic component performed by widely known bassists. The co-commission will be shown at Schaulager, Basel, in 2025. The accompanying publication features an introduction by Dia curator Donna De Salvo, who embeds the work in the context of McQueen's oeuvre to date, along with five essays by scholars of musicology, cultural studies, and Black studies, and a narrative reflection by a poet. A series of plates reflects the reverberating character of the color, light, and sound installation, with further illustrations documenting the planning and realization process of this site-specific project.
Table of Contents:
  • Bass installation views
  • Foreword / Jessica Morgan, Maja Oeri
  • Acknowledgments / Donna De Salvo
  • Introduction / Donna De Salvo
  • For a low-end theory of Black Atlantic cymatics / Paul Gilroy
  • Knocked out / Katherine McKittrick
  • Sub-frequencies (Steve McQueen) / John Keene
  • In the basement : a prelude for Steve McQueen's audiovisual diaspora / Tsitsi Ella Jaji
  • Sonic depths / Robert Fink
  • Saturation, or, on chromatic freedom / Christina Sharpe
  • About the artist
  • About the authors
  • About the musicians
  • Photo credits
  • Floor plan
  • Chromatic transitions
  • Bass recording session.
Author/Creator:
McQueen, Steve, 1969- , artist
Contributors:
De Salvo, Donna M. , editor, organizer, writer of supplementary textual content, writer of introduction
Friedli, Isabel , editor
Himmer, Elsa , editor
Markert, Emily , editor
Boom, Irma , book designer
Morgan, Jessica, 1968- , writer of foreword
Oeri, Maja , writer of foreword
Gilroy, Paul, 1956- , writer of supplementary textual content
McKittrick, Katherine , writer of supplementary textual content
Keene, John, 1965- , writer of supplementary textual content
Jaji, Tsitsi , writer of supplementary textual content
Fink, Robert , writer of supplementary textual content
Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth , writer of supplementary textual content
Dia:Beacon (Art museum) , host institution
Schaulager (Art museum : Münchenstein, Switzerland) , host institution
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Steve McQueen: Bass [by McQueen, S.]
Subjects:
McQueen, Steve, 1969- — Exhibitions
Artists, Black — Great Britain — Exhibitions
Bass guitar music — Exhibitions
Site-specific installations (Art) — Exhibitions
Genres:
Exhibition catalogs
General Notes:
"This book was commissioned in conjunction with 'Steve McQueen' at Dia Beacon, New York, May 12, 2024 - April 14, 2025. The commissioned work will be on view at Schaulager, starting in June 2025"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
Physical Description:
137 pages (includes 65 unnumbered pages preceding text), 60 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plan ; 32 cm
Call Numbers:
N6797.M363 A4 2024
ISBNs:
0944521207
9780944521205
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2024939210
OCLC Numbers:
1437723137